A compendious system of natural philosophy
Subtitle: with notes containing the mathematical demonstrations, and some occasional remarks : in four parts
By: by J. Rowning
Publisher: Printed for Sam. Harding ...
Published: 1744
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Physics
Notes: Signatures: v. 1, pt. 1 and Appendix. [pi]1 (= e4?) [superscript pi]A⁴, a-e⁴ (-e4), A-I⁴ K², ²A-B⁴ C1, 2; pt. 2. A-K⁴ M-Z⁴ (-Z4); pt. 3. A-M⁴ (-M4) -- v. 2, pt. 3 (cont'd.) [pi]1 (= pt. 4, ²F4?) G² H-X⁴; pt. 4, and index. A-Nn⁴ Oo² (-Oo2) ²C3, 4, ²D-F⁴ (-²F2.3, 4).

Vol. 1, 1744; v. 2, 1745.

The sheets of this edition were also issued separately in 8 sections, with special t.p.'s for the preliminaries, the Appendix to pt. 1, and the index to the whole (1 leaf, dated 1743), for pt. 1, 4th ed., 1745 (1 leaf), for pt. 2, 4th ed., 1745 (1 leaf), pt. 2 continued, 3rd ed., 1745 (1 leaf = Z4?), pt. 3, 2nd ed., 1743 (1 leaf = M4?), pt. 3 continued, 2nd ed., 1743, with half-title (2 conjugate leaves = pt. 4, ²F2.3?), pt. 4, 1742 (1 leaf) and pt. 4, continued, 1743 (l leaf = Oo2?). The publisher may have intended these leaves to be cancelled when the 8 pts. were bound up in 2 v., but the purchasers occasionally preserved them. Mixtures of other editions of the 8 pts. are also known.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Mechanics. Appendix; title: Pt. 2. Hydrostatics and Pneumatics; title: Pt. 3. Optics; title: Pt. 4. Astronomy.